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Dear trendy, There's also another issue I'd like to point out.

 I like to play GunWitch. But if I use her all the time, that means the chances for the totems, relics, etc to drop are almost 0. 

Can you adress this issue? Is it even a known issue?

@Ordemarebys quote:

Dear trendy, There's also another issue I'd like to point out.

 I like to play GunWitch. But if I use her all the time, that means the chances for that totems, relics, etc to drop are almost 0. 

Can you adress this issue? Is it even a known issue?

That's a really good point. I'll talk to the team!

In response to Ordemarebys

Sounds promising. 

[[4370,users]] I've waited about 10 days for a reply on my items being gone & still haven't received a response. I'm convinced I was forgotten as I didn't even receive an apology for such a long wait.

I want to be rewarded for doing C5 with Fire Auras.

I'm pretty sure this will fix/make up for 19.2

Thanks Trendy c:

Finally guys,now we are talking!

With those changes we can take the best of our defenses,Nice job trendy,hope those changes arrive soon.

Ps:Ty for taking  one of my suggestions :D 

Maybe some defenses still need buffs but thats a start.

Thanks for the update! This is what I envisioned for chaos in the beginning. Each chaos tier changes what spawns, instead of a clustered mess on C5, where only one thing works as it sucks otherwise.

Please tell me you guys are also going to look into tower balance as well. I mean buff some towers that are pretty worthless. As well I think tower speed is a bit overvalued, (raw not shard or % based) as most medallions which spawn with tower speed overshadow those without by far. Example I have two medallions, one with 8k def power + 2k def speed, it outclasses a medallion with over 11k  def power and def health. If you are building right, don't really need health at all for most buildings.

Most of these changes seem really promising, but a potential problem that I see is that if people eventually all progress to be purely doing c5 since that drops the best gear, then since cyborks are in c5 traps and auras will become irrelevant again.

Yes, yes, and more yes.  Excellent changes to the game, and I'm really glad you took the time to outline your intentions.

There is one thing I would like to suggest in regard to the trials change: Master tier.  These changes are all great for a learning curve, nothing is being thrown at you that invalidates an overwhelming majority of defenses.  There is, however, one issue, namely that Chaos V is never going to see traps/auras/nodes.  It stands to reason that in the highest difficulty, the game should throw everything it can at us.  Now I know what you're saying: "That's what we already had, it makes players only use flamethrowers and rams."  That is correct, because all of these challenges were in *EVERY* lane.

What I am trying to get at, is that the ultimate end-game for DD2 would involve lanes randomizing which Chaos tier they spawn, while still having the maximum stat values.  So for example, one lane might use Chaos III's unit composition, while another lane might have Chaos IV.  This is exactly what you want for your game.  You want players to be able to look at a lane, identify the challenges it will present them, and build their defense accordingly.  I would absolutely love this implementation, because it means that my building would change every time, even on the same map.  In one instance, I might be building a trap lane, whereas another session I might make that same lane projectiles.

The best part of this: if you isolated it from trials, and put it as a "master" mode, you could constantly add in more Trials tiers, and Master would simply add the new calculations into its lane randomization.

Thanks a lot for this update!

I hope a lot of people will feel relieved after reading this :)

The fixes to chaos sound promising. Might need a lot of balancing to really stay difficult though.

Gun Witch PS4

Can you please remap the controls for her abilities to the way they were before the update. Below is a list of the old controls for the Abilities that have moved and the reason I feel the their original position/layout was better.

Broom Vault - Circle: As it is an evade attack I feel it's important that Broom Vault is assigned to a "face" button  and not be part of a L1 or R1 sub-menu

Vroom Broom - (Hold) L1, X:  I often use this in combination with jumping/mid-air jumping and because of that I find it feels much more intuitive/natural for Vroom Broom attached to the X Button despite it also being the Gun Witch's healing.

Ice Needle - (Hold) R1, L1: As all of the Gun Witch's other abilities  were assigned to places on the controller that felt right I did not mind Ice Needle being assigned to this button combination.

I hope that makes sense. I am also interested in other people's thoughts as well.

Thanks

@Valthejean quote:

Yes, yes, and more yes.  Excellent changes to the game, and I'm really glad you took the time to outline your intentions.

There is one thing I would like to suggest in regard to the trials change: Master tier.  These changes are all great for a learning curve, nothing is being thrown at you that invalidates an overwhelming majority of defenses.  There is, however, one issue, namely that Chaos V is never going to see traps/auras/nodes.  It stands to reason that in the highest difficulty, the game should throw everything it can at us.  Now I know what you're saying: "That's what we already had, it makes players only use flamethrowers and rams."  That is correct, because all of these challenges were in *EVERY* lane.

What I am trying to get at, is that the ultimate end-game for DD2 would involve lanes randomizing which Chaos tier they spawn, while still having the maximum stat values.  So for example, one lane might use Chaos III's unit composition, while another lane might have Chaos IV.  This is exactly what you want for your game.  You want players to be able to look at a lane, identify the challenges it will present them, and build their defense accordingly.  I would absolutely love this implementation, because it means that my building would change every time, even on the same map.  In one instance, I might be building a trap lane, whereas another session I might make that same lane projectiles.

The best part of this: if you isolated it from trials, and put it as a "master" mode, you could constantly add in more Trials tiers, and Master would simply add the new calculations into its lane randomization.

Except for the fact that this is sort of exactly like the old Resistances thing, Magic resist vs Physical Resist, limiting your build, i guess, tho this does sound hypocritical. :P But it is the same thing, making you change your build per lane, not per map or whatever. It is a fine and hard line for trendy to walk right now.

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@Valthejean quote:

Yes, yes, and more yes.  Excellent changes to the game, and I'm really glad you took the time to outline your intentions.

There is one thing I would like to suggest in regard to the trials change: Master tier.  These changes are all great for a learning curve, nothing is being thrown at you that invalidates an overwhelming majority of defenses.  There is, however, one issue, namely that Chaos V is never going to see traps/auras/nodes.  It stands to reason that in the highest difficulty, the game should throw everything it can at us.  Now I know what you're saying: "That's what we already had, it makes players only use flamethrowers and rams."  That is correct, because all of these challenges were in *EVERY* lane.

What I am trying to get at, is that the ultimate end-game for DD2 would involve lanes randomizing which Chaos tier they spawn, while still having the maximum stat values.  So for example, one lane might use Chaos III's unit composition, while another lane might have Chaos IV.  This is exactly what you want for your game.  You want players to be able to look at a lane, identify the challenges it will present them, and build their defense accordingly.  I would absolutely love this implementation, because it means that my building would change every time, even on the same map.  In one instance, I might be building a trap lane, whereas another session I might make that same lane projectiles.

The best part of this: if you isolated it from trials, and put it as a "master" mode, you could constantly add in more Trials tiers, and Master would simply add the new calculations into its lane randomization.

I personally really, really love this idea or something similar to it.

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@Nerfles quote:

Thanks for the update! This is what I envisioned for chaos in the beginning. Each chaos tier changes what spawns, instead of a clustered mess on C5, where only one thing works as it sucks otherwise.

Please tell me you guys are also going to look into tower balance as well. I mean buff some towers that are pretty worthless. As well I think tower speed is a bit overvalued, (raw not shard or % based) as most medallions which spawn with tower speed overshadow those without by far. Example I have two medallions, one with 8k def power + 2k def speed, it outclasses a medallion with over 11k  def power and def health. If you are building right, don't really need health at all for most buildings.

Yes we are! 

In response to Nerfles

@Valthejean quote:

Yes, yes, and more yes.  Excellent changes to the game, and I'm really glad you took the time to outline your intentions.

There is one thing I would like to suggest in regard to the trials change: Master tier.  These changes are all great for a learning curve, nothing is being thrown at you that invalidates an overwhelming majority of defenses.  There is, however, one issue, namely that Chaos V is never going to see traps/auras/nodes.  It stands to reason that in the highest difficulty, the game should throw everything it can at us.  Now I know what you're saying: "That's what we already had, it makes players only use flamethrowers and rams."  That is correct, because all of these challenges were in *EVERY* lane.

What I am trying to get at, is that the ultimate end-game for DD2 would involve lanes randomizing which Chaos tier they spawn, while still having the maximum stat values.  So for example, one lane might use Chaos III's unit composition, while another lane might have Chaos IV.  This is exactly what you want for your game.  You want players to be able to look at a lane, identify the challenges it will present them, and build their defense accordingly.  I would absolutely love this implementation, because it means that my building would change every time, even on the same map.  In one instance, I might be building a trap lane, whereas another session I might make that same lane projectiles.

The best part of this: if you isolated it from trials, and put it as a "master" mode, you could constantly add in more Trials tiers, and Master would simply add the new calculations into its lane randomization.

This is very similar to the thoughts that I had on these proposed changes, your idea of this master tier I agree with 100%. I would love to see a tier where lanes are randomized of what special enemies spawn, provided that this is defined when the map opens and which lane is a cybork lane for example doesn't move to what was previously the geode lane. And that there is at least one of each type of lane, so there is no chance of pure cyborks or pure geodes.

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@Yuhaku quote:

Sounds promising. 

iamisom I've waited about 10 days for a reply on my items being gone & still haven't received a response. I'm convinced I was forgotten as I didn't even receive an apology for such a long wait.

Send me an email at josh.isom[at]trendyent[dot]com, and I'll get this settled first thing Monday morning. (I'm on the road this weekend unfortunately.)

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@Nembus_x quote:

Gun Witch PS4

Can you please remap the controls for her abilities to the way they were before the update. Below is a list of the old controls for the Abilities that have moved and the reason I feel the their original position/layout was better.

Broom Vault - Circle: As it is an evade attack I feel it's important that Broom Vault is assigned to a "face" button  and not be part of a L1 or R1 sub-menu

Vroom Broom - (Hold) L1, X:  I often use this in combination with jumping/mid-air jumping and because of that I find it feels much more intuitive/natural for Vroom Broom attached to the X Button despite it also being the Gun Witch's healing.

Ice Needle - (Hold) R1, L1: As all of the Gun Witch's other abilities  were assigned to places on the controller that felt right I did not mind Ice Needle being assigned to this button combination.

I hope that makes sense. I am also interested in other people's thoughts as well.

Thanks

Excuse me if I come across as rude. They don't need to revert controls, simply allow us the ability to customize what abilities/towers are mapped to whatever button we choose (Had the infamous wheel to help with that customization), this was in DD1 so there's no need to ask for a revert when we've had better.

In response to Nembus_x

Thanks so much for listening and caring Trendy! I'm loving the update!

Time for the cannonball meta! yeeee haww projectile c5!, Glad to see the UI changes picking a hero got a bit tedious sometimes when you have allot of heroes.

Keep tweeking lads

I like overall the changes even  if all of this SHOULD have been in the update already. The siege roller change has been asked for months I guess it's better later than never.

And the chaos changes are OK-ish but  will be extremly confusing, I mean you expect players to remember all the 5 comzzbinations of enemies, one per difficulty level ? (granted the two first are very straightfoward). I really don't think this new idea is a good one, I think it's just countering your idea of chaos enemies with some quick bandage that doesn't solve the problems.

On top of that nothing about the 5 map ugly repetitivity of trials playlists really ?

I think this looks good. Some nice UI changes / additions, nice siege roller changes, and i think the balance pass for chaos is going in the right direction.

Something that i kinda want that could alleviate the finding hero problem aswell is to have not only 4 keys be quick keys to swap heroes but have more keys be able to swap heroes when building and then during combat only the 4 first ones.

Another thing that would be nice is if the new hero browse could change position of the heroes so you could choose their order and such.

@๖ۣۜPhoenixX quote:

I like most of these fixes.  For the new gear vs retrieved gear though i rather see the base power of my upgraded gear to compare, As everntually we'll figure out what each point of upgrade will give to stats

I think it would be better to have the max potential be displayed since if they ever have different scaling when upgrading only displaying your upgraded gears base stat would not show if it  was an upgrade or not if the other item has higher scaling. 

Also if you find an item that has 3000 or so base defence power and 30 upgrade levels it would not be as easy to know if a base 2800 with 50 upgrade levels would be better.

In response to ๖ۣۜPhoenixX

I can use my ev again! Wahoo!

Loving these changes. Sounds like some really positive gameplay. Thanks Trendy.